Lecturer in Health Sciences

The School of Health Sciences is an interprofessional school which sits within the College of Medicine and Health and provides health and care education and research at Bangor University. The School works in partnership with health, social and educational care providers through well-established links to enable a total clinical and academic experience to be provided for children’s nursing students. The School offers a career-spanning portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and short courses for health and care and allied professionals. We hold an Athena Swan Bronze award in recognition of our commitment to and progress towards gender equality within the University's policies, practices, and culture.

The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post.

Committed To Equal Opportunities

Overview

College of Medical and Health Sciences

The College provides students with a world-class learning experience characterised by scientific rigour, practical relevance, and in particular a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to our teaching and research.

The School Mission Statement reflects our aims to champion and promote excellent health and social care science, research, scholarship, teaching and learning, quality and values with people who use services, practitioners, and stakeholders. To promote language and cultural competence relevant to local, national and international partners, and to provide an inclusive culture and environment for staff and students within the School.

Bangor’s mission is for a research-led University of and for North Wales, providing transformative learning experiences and nurturing a positive impact on society regionally, nationally, and internationally (Strategy 2030). Across the University, research and teaching are closely inter-linked: almost all research academics teach, ensuring that our students benefit from the knowledge created by our research.

Purpose of the Job
- To teach at undergraduate (and postgraduate) levels, including supervision of projects and marking of academic assessments with a focus on leadership and management within the healthcare setting.
- To develop teaching materials or methodologies, for example course design or assessment and undertake module coordinator role or contribute to module co-ordination.
- To provide the highest quality pastoral and academic support to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
- To undertake administrative duties as designated by the Head of School.

Main

**Responsibilities**:
Teaching duties will include:

- Plan, prepare and deliver lectures and tutorials responding effectively to a variety of student backgrounds, learning styles, personal support plans and class sizes.
- Motivate students to proactive engagement in learning and provide meaningful and constructive feedback on the quality of their work.
- Keep abreast of new professional, educational and related social, economic and technological developments in health and care.
- Supervise undergraduate and postgraduate projects.
- Be personal tutor to a number of undergraduate and postgraduate students, providing the highest quality, consistent, advice, guidance and support.
- Contribute to the development of new programmes and undertaking role of module coordinator or contributing to module co-ordination.
- Maintain and develop scholarly activities in line with University and College strategies. - Publish and share evidence of scholarship related to learning and teaching in books, articles and/or papers in academic journals.
- Ensure adherence to organisational and professional body (i.e. NMC) requirements in all aspects of academic work, and in personal professional development
- Engage in scholarly, professional and improvement-related activities around health and care education in partnership with students, local stakeholders and service users.
- Contribute to the growth and improvement of the practice learning circuit capacity and quality, and support students’ learning in practice.
- Actively engage in strategic and project-related activities that maximise student engagement, and that mitigate the risks of attrition.
- Lead the development of new modules, and the re-design and improvement of existing modules.

Administrative and Wider Contribution duties will include:

- Participate in the student recruitment and induction procedures of the School (e.g. School and University Open Days).
- Contribute to the School's management and participate in the administration of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes (e.g. organisation of exams, contribute to accreditation/QA procedures (if module co-ordinator).
- Contribute to the marketing of programmes by participating in School and College link activities and other marketing initiatives.
- Undertake other administrative duties and responsibilities as directed by the Head of School (e.g. membership of School boards and task groups, addressing/supporting undergraduate and postgraduate student exp